Impressions on Iron Gates Chapter Thirteen
Impressions on Iron Gates Chapter Thirteen
Organizational forces encounter another surviving group
The objective of this chapter is simple: to let the reader understand somewhat the world in which the story unfolds, and to give a clue as to the superior intelligence, as well as the cold and pragmatic cruelty from which the organization forces act.
When taken as a whole, we can also notice that the constant psychic driving, the supplying of engineered cults and drugs, keeping shock troops busy with carnage, cannibalism, and sense-excitement, as well as each person busy and obsessed with what they are good at, such as internal security officers with intelligence puzzles to solve on the field that lead to acts that lead them to feel an air of proud superiority as their rivals get ripped to pieces, or the many weapons and mechanical innovators and make-doers, each collected for their talents, spurred forward towards maniacal tunnel-vision success in honor of their superiors, in ecstasy of the suffering of others, and in fear of their own demise by some greater predatorial force.
This sounds very, very familiar. An archetypal representation of the inner heart, the burgeoning nature of our current society. Perhaps someone educated in the Vedas, however, or in Ancient Chinese History and Philosophy, would tell you, “It has always been like this, at the heart of it all, and when regimes allow and incite this to happen, such as the Communist regimes of the Cold War, or the Bolsheviks, it was only the crowning jewel of a dark humanity.”
As to the events in the thirteenth chapter of Iron Gates, they are straightforward. Organization shock troopers, always beside and under the direction of internal security (intelligence operators), have encountered members of an extraneous group that has until now remained unknown to them. The chapter begins by telling us of the confusion and terror of these bearded survivors of the post-apocalyptic world, who thought they would meet the organizational forces toe-to-toe, only to find themselves out-maneuvered and gunned down to bits.
The book tells us that the shock troopers collect the heads of those they have just defeated, except for those whose remains have been so utterly destroyed, grinded to mush and gore, that there is no head to collect. However, such remains still serve as an occasional nutritional contribution in a world where cannibalism has become commonplace, and in the case of the organization, something that is apparently incentivized.
To end, let us repeat, no, this is not a book promoting cannibalism or the killing of people in war. It is a representation of war and of cannibalism in a fictitious world, about a fictitious organization, that is, nevertheless, reflective of many such groups that did kill and commit atrocities by the millions, and perhaps even cannibalism, rape, all in the service of maniacal leaders, obsessive weapon makers, and mad scientists eager to test their findings on unsuspecting populations.